Good grief. Starlink v2 satellites are generating 32 times more radio emission than previous generations! This is totally blinding to radio telescopes and will stop us doing science in this part of the spectrum.
BBC News coverage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo
Journal article: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa51856-24/aa51856-24.html
@Rhodium103 @Astromeg Forget where I originally read this, but the goal for the Starlink project is (as I understood it), to offer a slightly faster rate of data transmission than trans-Atlantic data cables, for a few millisecond's edge in microtrading stocks between London and New York, and more broadly allowing daytrading from yachts and vacation destinations with less robust data links. Every other proposed benefit is just window dressing.
What's a little Kessler Syndrome and damage to astronomy planet wide, in the face of helping parasites make more millions, while contributing nothing of value.
We need a ban on the Musk satellites right now before they also disturb all GPS signals worldwide
In 2021 I didn’t realize that Don’t Look Up meant there would be literally nothing to see beyond our garbage…
@Astromeg
tech bros: "elon will take us all to space!"
elon musk: [rapidly constructing a cage of space debris that makes space travel harder, eventually impossible, blocks our view of the universe and furthering global warming with all the objects burning up in the atmosphere on re-entry, effectively trapping us on this planet while also making it harder to live on]
Welcome to the neoliberal free market wild west where everything is possible and the richest meanest bastards win!
@Astromeg I hate this fuck so much.
For so many reasons.
I wish I could say I'm surprised. But it's Starlink, so I'm not! Everything Musk touches turns to shit! Honestly the man should be in jail, not throwing more junk into orbit.
@Astromeg I'm just wondering, what if a radio telescope tried to do a radar measurement of an asteroid and a Starlink happened to be in the beam path?
I mean, oops, there are just so darn many of them up there, so sorry about the terawatt of beam power into your receivers.
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